Dental Office Prescription Fraud and Drug Diversion
Prescription fraud and drug diversion are among the most legally consequential forms of dental practice theft. Prosperident's archive includes 48 cases involving dental practice employees who forged prescriptions, stole prescription pads, diverted controlled substances, or obtained narcotics through false patient records. Unlike cash embezzlement, these cases bring DEA exposure for the prescribing dentist — even when the dentist had no knowledge of the activity.
Practice owners reading these cases will notice that the perpetrator is usually a long-trusted employee with personal access to the prescriber's login, prescription pad, or computer. Detection is almost always external — a pharmacist's call, a patient complaint, or a DEA inquiry. By the time the dentist learns of the activity, the regulatory situation is already advanced. If any of this resonates with what you're seeing in your own practice, call 888‑398‑2327. The first conversation is confidential and costs nothing.
Documented Cases (48)
- 15 month Prison term for Pennsylvania oral surgeon Dr. Donald Dinello Jr. in theft, prescription fraud case
- Alaska dental assistant Donya R. Owens pleads guilty to prescription scam - sentenced to 1 year
- Bothell WA's Lori Bowman Gets 2 1/2 Years for steal of $175K and Forged Prescriptions
- CA Police Arrest Dental Employee Anacristina McDaniel and Husband for Counterfeiting Prescriptions
- California dental office worker Kristina Vargas arrested for allegedly obtaining fraudulent prescriptions - scam used 11 times
- Colorado assistant Amber Hyatt sentenced for drug tampering
- Connecticut's Izabela Murray accused by fellow employees of steal of 10 vials of fentanyl from dental office
- Custodian Kari Anne Edwards charged with 2 counts of steal of drugs from Mankato MN oral surgery practice
- Dorothy Lynn Guerrero, felony convictions for theft and possession of controlled substance.
- Drugs, Burglary, and Embezzlement in California for Fonda Rae Underwood
- Employee Kyle Hughes committed break-in and drug theft from a Michigan dental office. Facing 5 year jail term
- Feds: Vermont Dental Employees Tammy Laroque and Lindsey Cox Obtained Drugs, Committed Steal of $71K
- FL Dentist Dr. Joseph Gorfien steals partner's prescription pads to get oxycodone
- FL dentist's daughter Stacey Sumner arrested for forging 500+ pain pill prescriptions through steal of father's prescription pad
- Former employee at Connecticut dental practice Jessica Cash called in fraudulent prescriptions - $5k bail
- Former Niagara Falls NY dental office manager Louis Carr spared prison for forging 75 prescriptions
- Former teen tennis star Olivia Dubovikov accused of steal of Rx pads from NY dental office where she worked...again -- 600 pills
- Former Valencia County NM dental practice employees Pamela Suniga and Barbara Hussey charged with trafficking prescription painkillers, steal of $17K
- From justanswer.com -- I was caught today having forged a prescription from a dentist's pad
- From Reddit.com -- how people forge opiate prescriptions
- Hygienist Denise M. Lawrence wrote her own prescriptions - 35 times
- Indiana Dental Office Employee Jessica Andre Accused Of Forging Prescriptions
- Kara Wilson and Shawn Chapin, former offic cleaners, accused of steal of $74 cash and drugs from dentist.
- Kathryn Eilers — Anamosa Dental Associates — Anamosa, Iowa
- Kennewick, Washington police accuse Nicole Polus and Chareise Raugust of 167 forged prescriptions
- Kentucky's Elsie Lamb Steal of $15K From Dentist; Illegally Obtained Drugs
- Laurel KY dental employees Ashley Coffey and Katrina Dixon charged with writing fake prescriptions to steal Hydrocodone
- Lufkin TX dental employee Heather Terry pleads guilty to 3 counts of prescription fraud; also stole office's gold with co-worker
- Michigan Office Manager Vicki Zachary Convicted of Embezzlement, Drug Charges
- Michigan's Heather Malone pleads guilty - did steal prescriptions for opiates from dental office -4 year sentence
- Missouri drug ring including dental employee Anne Marie Coke busted by police - released on $50k bond
- Misty Michelle Tullos of Texas who forged 163 prescriptions sentenced to 5 years' probation
- NC dental assistant Marla Rebecca Bright charged with 14 counts of forging prescriptions
- NC Dental receptionist Anita Reed faces embezzlement, drug charges for steal of $3,400
- New York City employee arrested at work with drugs
- Ohio Oral Surgery Employee Karen Seguin Charged with 8 counts for Steal of Fentanyl from Office
- Pennsylvania Dental Assistant Belinda Dietrich Sentenced to Year for Forging Prescriptions
- Pennsylvania dental office employee Elizabeth Weber charged with steal of medications. $10K bail set
- Police: Ohio OMS Office Employee Brittany Roehm Swapped Painkillers for Saltwater
- Politician Linda Schrenko sentenced for launding $600k federal education funds diverted to campaign through daughter's dental office
- Receptionist Melinda Miller among 15 charged in Northampton County PA illegal prescription/heroin ring
- Retired NJ Dentist: ‘Michael Eshghipour continued to use my prescription and my license number’
- Shannon Bragdon of Portland, ME pleads guilty to stealing blank prescriptions to get oxycodone; faces $250k fine
- St. Louis dental receptionist Nicole Miller charged with stealing, drug offense
- VA receptionist Rebecca Hundley charged in prescription scam -forged 3 scripts
- Virginia dental worker Donna Talley guilty of fraudulently distributing 100,000+ hydrocodone pills
- Washington dental office manager Nicole Allenton faces jail for falsifying prescriptions...and has done it before
- When Dentists Behave Badly -- Murdered North Carolina dentist Dr. James David Boyd, 47, involved in sex for drugs trade.
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